Survival of oaks and tanoaks after 8 years of SOD monitoring
Monday, May 10, 2010 at 1:41PM McPherson, B. M., D. L. Wood, S. Mori, M. Kelly, A. J. Storer, P. Svihra, and R. B. Standiford. 2010. Responses of oaks and tanoaks to the sudden oak death pathogen after 8 y of monitoring in two coastal California forests. Forest Ecology and Management 259: 2248-2255
We report on the survival of trees (coast live oaks, black oaks, and tanoaks) in long-term SOD monitoring plots in Marin County. The study demonstrates the use of survival modeling to characterize the effects of epidemic disease on different species and to project the future of forests infected with tree
pathogens. Pdf download. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2010.02.020
Keywords: Survival analysis . Sudden oak death . Phytophthora ramorum . Coast live oak . California black oak . Tanoak
Rob York reviews our article in the Center for Forestry's outreach page: ForestSteward.com.
oaks, sod, statistics